Edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article



NOV 30, 1954 ApJ. HILTBRUNNER Erm. 2,695,410

EDGE BINDING OR TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE INVENTORH12/vow J AKM rafa/maeva W4/af.: M fafa/waz 27 Jaw t 9 8%m ATTORNEY NOV30, 1954 A. J. HILTBRUNNER Erm. 2,595,410

EDGE BINDING OR TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE 3 Sheets-Sheet2 Original Filed May 23, 1949 IN VEN TOR'| HRNOLD JT H/L TBRUNNERCHHRLES M,H/L.TBRUNNER HTTORNEY NOV 30, 1954 A. J. HILTBRUNNER ETAL2,595,410

EDGE BINDING DE TRIMNING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE Original FiledMay 23, 1949 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 'FTI-E27 'Fi-E28 IN VEN TORS Fr'RNOLD J'.H/l. TBRUNNE R CHFRLES M. H/L TBRUNNER BY HTTORNEY United States PatentO EDGE BINDING R TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE Arnold J.Hiltbrunner, Westwood, N. J., and Charles M.

Hltbrunner, Nanuet, N. Y., assignors to National Sure- Fit QuiltingCompany, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Originalapplication May 23, 1949, Serial No. 94,908. Divided and thisapplication May 10, 1951, Serial No. 225,594

2 Claims. (Cl. 2-274) This invention relates to an `.edge-binding ortrimming combined with a quilt or like textile article having a combinededge-binding and double-ruffled trimming and comprises a division of ourco-pending application `Serial No. f

94,908, filed May 23, 1949, now Patent No. 2,669,203, dated February 16,1954.

One of the objects of this invention is `to provide a quilt or likearticle having a combined edge-binding and trimming member composed of asingle longitudinally folded strip of trimming material provided `alongits `opposite edges with ruffle-pleats sewed to the opposite surfaces ofthe quilt at the edge thereof, whereby we produce a quilt or the liketextile article having a binding member that encloses and binds its edgeand provides an ornamental ruiiled trimming for opposite surfacesthereof to cause said quilt or like article to be reversible.

As the textile article having `a trimming provided with their dualuniform pleating and lluting as herein specied and claimed cannot, inapplicants opinion, be produced by hand in any practical way forcommercial purposes, applicants will now specify one form of mechanismsuitable for producing a quilt with their dual uniformly pleated andiluted trimming sewed thereto.

Another object of our invention is to produce a quilt orfthe like:having edge-.binding and double-ruiiled trimming composed of a singlefolded strip, the ruffled pleats on opposite surfaces of the edges ofwhich are of equal and uniform depth on both edges so that during asewing to the quilt of a considerable length of such pleats, we willavoid any substantial unevenness of the travel of opposite edges of thetrimming strip that would cause distortion or uneven tension or pullingof the material at the middle or body-portion of the edge-encirclingtrimming member between the rows of pleats which is ornamentally anddoubly tinted by the pleats.

With these and other objects in View, the invention comprises thecombination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to co-actand cooperate with each othe1 in the performance of the functions andthe accomplishment of the results herein contemplated, and comprises inone of its adaptations the species or preferred form illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a view in plan of a portion of a quilt showing my combinedbinding and trimming sewed thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view in end elevation of a sewing machine headembodying a double-milling attachment for producing our quilt andshowing the needles in raised position and the rufing blades inretracted position;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in plan of said doubleruiing attachmentwith the parts in the position shown in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a view in end elevation similar to Fig. 4 showing the needleslowered and the ruling blades in ruflling position;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view of the needles, presser foot and adjacentruining-attachment parts with the needles raised, the ruflling bladesretracted on the guides and showing the paths of the materials throughsaid guides and the machine;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 7 with the needle loweredand the ruling blades forming rules be- 2,695,410 Patented Nov. 30, 1954ice 2 tween` the presser foot and feed` dog adjaeent` to the needles;and

Fig. 9 is a section on the line 9-9 `of Fig. 5.

Referring now to these drawings which illustrate a preferred embodimentof our invention, we produce an article such` as the quilt 1 shown inFigs. l, 2 and 3 having a combined edge-binding and trimming member 2composed of a single longitudinally folded strip 3 of trimming material`provided along its opposite edges 4 and 5 with rutile-pleats 6, 7 sewedto the opposite surfaces la, 1b of the quilt l `at the edge thereof. Wethus produce a quilt or the like having a binding member that enclosesand binds its `edge and` provides an ornamental and double rutlledtrimming 8 for opposite `surfaces thereof. The ruffled pleats 6, 7 onopposite surfaces of the edges are of equal and uniform depth on bothedges so that during a sewing to the quilt of a considerable length `ofsuch pleats, we will avoid any substantial unevenness of the travel ofopposite edges of the trimming strip that would cause distortion oruneven tension or pulling of the material at the middle or body-portion9 of the edge-encircling trimming member between the rows of pleatswhich is ornamentally fluted by the pleats.

The preferred mechanism for producing the article 1` comprises a headV10 of a conventional sewing machine having `a needle-bar 11 carrying aneedle 12 and a presserfoot bar 13 carrying `a presser foot 14, both ofwhich are actuated by conventional `mechanism not shown. The presserfoot presses and holds the material in engagement with a set of feeddogs 15 also actuated in the usual manner by conventional mechanismnotshown.

The sewing machine head 10 is provided with a conventional horizontallydisposed rutile shaft 16 mounted `in bearing arms 168L extendinglaterally from the head 10, and We mount on the shaft 16 a binding andrufing attachment that wi1l,`during a sewing operation, enable thesimultaneous `binding of the edge of a quilt .or the ylike and produceruiing pleats of opposite side edges .of a single folded strip oftrimming material to provide a trimming surrounding such edge tofunction both as an edge-.binding and as an ornamental rutlled trimming.In our preferred embodiment, we preferably mount in an inwardly-offsetIpositiona ruining-blade lever 17 which, as shown, is adjustablevertically in a sleeve 17EL and has an offset color 17lo fast on thesaid shaft 16. The inward offsetting of the lever 16 provides more spaceat the outside thereof for our blade-connecting device which, in thepreferred embodiment shown, comprises an oscillatable yoke member 18having arms 18a, 18b extending angularly to each other from auintermediate pivot-bearing 18c which is pivoted on a block or collar 19adjustable vertically on the lever 16. In the embodiment shown, theouter ends of the yoke-arms 18a, 18b have mounted therein and carryhorizontal extensions or blades-positioning rods 20, 20a, the outer endsof which extend transversely across the path of movement of the quiltedge and the trimming material and are provided at such outer ends withpairs of attaching screws 21, 21a and 22, 22a by which a pair orrufing-blades 23, 23a are mounted on the rods 20, 201 to extendtransversely thereto in substantial parallelism and alignment with thesaid path of movement of the quilt edge and trimming material. Said pairof blades 23, 23E are resilient and bent at their outer ends to extendtoward a common plane and are positioned to move in contact with upperand lower terminal plates 24a, 24b of a channeled guiding member 24having a middle guide-channel portion 25 for the reception of the edge26 of the quilt 1 and a U-shaped channelled portion 27 fitting aroundsaid channeled portion 25 and having leg portions 27a, 27b extending onopposite sides thereof. A channel is formed between the inner channelledportion 25 and the outer channeled portion 27 and the channel so formedreceived a folded strip of trimming material 3 which has been initiallyfolded between its edges by any suitable means and then passed through alateral or side extension 29 of said U-shaped channel member 24, fromwhich it is turned to pass through said U-shaped doublechanneled member24. Said member 24 extends along the front of the machine in alignmentwith the final path of travel both of the quilt-edge 26 and of thetrimming material 3. In such travel, the quilt edge and trimmingmaterial pass through the upper and lower terminal ends of thesaidguiding member 24, and in accordance with our invention, said terminalends 24E, 24b are utilized as guides for the movement of the resilientupper and lower ruiug blades 23, 23E. Due to the resilience, positioningand mounting of said ruling blades, they are adapted to move toward eachother, and are guided by said channeled portion ends 24a, 24vb to moveinto ruffling contact with the opposite edges of the trimming materialfed through said channel between the portions 25 and 27 and through theoutlet at the ends of said terminal portions 24a, 24h.

The rufrling blades are preferably formed of relatively atblade-attaching spring members 23h, 23 and reverselybent blade-sections23d, 23e whichfare each provided at their terminal ends with ne teeth23f as shown in Fig. 5.

As shown, the lower terminal end 24b extends to a line adjacent to thebottom of a shallow groove 30 in the top surface of the sewing machinetable t and the outer end 23e of the lower rulling blade operates insaid groove 30 and reciprocates between the bottom thereof and saidterminal end 24b of the said guide member 24.

It will be seen that the pair of rufing blades are mounted forreciprocable movement conjointly toward and away from a common plane andadapted, during a machine stitching operation, for sewing to oppositesurfaces adjacent to the edge of a quilt or the like the opposite edgesof a folded trimming strip, to simultaneously ruflle such opposite edgesof the folded trimming strip and thus to provide on the edge of thequilt or the like a combined edge-binding and double-ruined trimming;that the pair of milling blades are reciprocably movable conjointlytoward and away from a common plane extending adjacently above a sewingmachine base and the feed dog thereof combined with means for moving andguiding said blades to move at a position above said feed dog and belowa presser foot to provide on both surfaces of a guided edge of a quiltor the like ruled pleats of a trimming strip, and that the attachment ofthe type specified is adapted to produce rufes or pleats of equal widthat opposite surfaces of the guided edge of the quilt or the I like, andalso that we provide a mounting means for said blades which will enableboth blades to be moved by a common ruflling blade lever and to be movedsimilar distances on each operation of said lever and to provideamounting means preferably comprising an oscillatory t1 yoke pivotallymounted between its ends on said rufingblade lever and having armsthrough which the pair of ruffling blades are conjointly reciprocated bysaid ruifling blade lever through equal distances to produce uniformlrutile pleats on each operation.

Having described our invention, we claim:

l. In an edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article, thecombination of a body of textile material and an edge trimmingsurrounding at least one marginal edge thereof, said edge trimmingcomprising a single trimming strip having between its edges alongitudinal fold and provided with longitudinally-disposed edgeportions at opposite sides of said fold, said edge portions comprisingtwo plies of material and contacting with opposite faces of said textilebody adjacent to said marginal edge, each of said twolongitudinally-disposed edge-portions of said strip being provided witha series of independentlyruffled pleats to form two series of pleats,said pleated edge portions being sewed to the face of said body adjacentto said marginal edge, said pleats of said two series being arranged inpairs having one member of a pair at each face of said textile body andthe pleats of such pair being of equal and uniform depth and providingin the longitudinally folded portion of said strip between said pleatsan ornamental fluted portion at each side of said textile body havingilutes of substantially equal size, said longitudinally-folded uted andpleat-edged strip of trimming material producing with said trimmed bodya textile article having a reversible marginal edge with opposite facesthereof enclosed within and bound by said pleated and uted trimmingstrip.

2. In an edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article asclaimed in claim l in which the body of said textile article isrectilinear in shape and a single trimming strip completely surroundsthe four edges and corners of said rectilinear body to produce acompletely reversible textile article having all its marginal edges andcorners enclosed within and bound by an ornamental trimming strip havingpleats of uniform depth and flutes of uniform area.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date 2,042,046 Gwathmey May 26, 1936 2,256,992 stam sept. 23, 19412,418,886 Irwin Apr. l5, 1947

